By Xinhua,
Kabul : Anti-government militants set ablaze a clinic in Afghanistan’s eastern Khost province early Wednesday, a police officer said.
Armed militants set on fire a health clinic in the outskirts of Khost city, the capital of Khost province, at 3 a.m. local time and destroyed it, a senior police officer in the province, Azizullah Paktiawal, told Xinhua.
The police have arrested six suspected persons in this regard, he added. The clinic was providing health service to some 40,000 locals.
No group or individual has claimed responsibility, but officials often blame such attacks on Taliban militants who usually target government institutions, including schools and security personnel.
Taliban militants whose regime was ousted from power by a U.S.-led military invasion in late 2001 have vowed to oust the Afghan government and evict foreign forces from the post-Taliban nation.